Famous quotes containing the words land and/or boom:
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)